Middle-Fork

What is it exactly.....??? What is that fire like thing??? and some golden lightening???

This is a photograph I took of myself. I set a delay timer on the camera, then stepped out in front and stood at right angles to the camera juggling three pins. The pins are white plastic with shiny golden trim. The light is reflecting off the shiny golden trim. The exposure was three or four seconds, and so you see several cycles of the juggling pattern. I am wearing a blue shirt, and the pinkish blurs are my arms.